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Graduate Schools /
CUNY City College |
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Table of Contents |
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Notable alumni |
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Nobel Laureates
- Julius Axelrod - 1970
Nobel laureate in Medicine
- Kenneth Arrow - 1972 Nobel laureate in Economics
- Herbert Hauptman - 1985
Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Robert Hofstadter - 1961 Nobel laureate in Economics
- Jerome Karle - 1985 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Arthur Kornberg - 1959
Nobel laureate in Medicine
- Leon M. Lederman - 1988
Nobel laureate in Physics
- Arno Penzias - 1978 Nobel laureate in Physics
Politics, Government, and Sociology
- Daniel Bell - sociologist, professor at Harvard University
- Bernard M. Baruch - Wall Street financier and adviser to American Presidents for 40 years, from Woodrow Wilson to John F. Kennedy.
- Abraham D. Beame - mayor of New York City, 1974 to 1977
- Stephen Bronner - political theorist, professor at Rutgers University
- Nathan Glazer - neoconservative political pundit
- Irving Howe - coined the phrase "New York Jewish Intellectual"
- Ed Koch - mayor of New York
City, 1978 to 1989
- Irving Kristol - neoconservative pundit
- Colin L. Powell - United States Secretary of State
- Julius Rosenberg - infamous convicted spy during the Cold War
The Arts
- Paddy Chayevsky - famed playwright for the stage and screen,
wrote Marty and Altered
States
- Ira Gershwin - American lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of
George Gershwin
- Arthur Guiterman, humorous poet
- E.Y. "Yip" Harburg - American lyricist (The Wizard of Oz, Finian's Rainbow, others)
- Oscar Hijuelos - Pulitzer Prize winning writer
- Judd Hirsch - American actor
Science and Technology
- Julius Blank - engineer, member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon
Valley
- George Washington Goethals - civil engineer, best known for his supervision of construction and the opening
of the Panama Canal
- Dan Goldin - served as the 9th and longest-tenured Administrator of
NASA.
- Andy Grove - 4th employee of Intel,
and eventually its president, CEO, and chairman, and TIME magazine's
Man of the Year in 1997
- Robert E. Kahn - Internet pioneer, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol, co-recipient of
the Turing Award in 2004.
- Lewis Mumford - historian of technology
- Charles Lane Poor - noted astronomer
- Jonas Salk - inventor of the Salk vaccine (see polio vaccine)
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